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Idioms and Phrases with come to grips with

come to grips with

Confront squarely, deal decisively with, as in Her stories help the children come to grips with upsetting events. This term, sometimes put asget to grips with, employs grip in the sense of a “tight hold.”
[ Mid-1900s
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